119
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Variant of 911, q.v.
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119
- The telephone number for law enforcement in Jamaica, Mozambique, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
- The telephone number for ambulance services in Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea and on Taiwan.
- 119 handles fires and medical emergencies in Japan and Korea but the police have a separate number, 110.
- The telephone number for firefighting assistance in China, Bolivia, Japan, and South Korea.
- The telephone number for antiterrorist services in Afghanistan.
- (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) The telephone number for COVID-19 emergencies in the United Kingdom's Home Counties.
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119 (緊急電話冧巴)/119 (紧急电话冧巴) on the Cantonese Wikipedia.Wikipedia zh-yue
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119
- (People's Republic of China, Republic of China) 119: in mainland China (“People's Republic of China”) and Taiwan (“Republic of China”) the emergency telephone number for firefighting